Holder for shoes



March 20, 1928.

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GUSTAVE G. RONA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HOLDER FOR SHOES.

Application filed .Tune 23, 1926. Serial No. 117,939.

The object of this invention is to provide a sectional shoe holder whichshall be light, preferably flexible, inexpensive to manufacture and ofsuch forms that one or any desired succeeding sections may be employed.The device is adapted to hang on a doorwall or other support andsections may be applied to the whole without disconnecting any of thepreceding sections.

The invention will be vunderstood by reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view of two connected sect-ions,the lower section being broken away, the device being shown in itspreferred form;

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1, showing a modified form of thedevice;

Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3, Figure 1, looking inthe direction of the arrows;

Figure 4 is a section on the line H, Figure 1, and

Figure 5 is a Figure 2.

In the preferred form of the device, as illustrated in Figure 1, itcomprises a backing member 1 which is preferably formedof cloth. Thesaid backing member has stitched thereto a cloth-piece 2 in such mannerthat a central line ofstitching 3 running longitudinally of the backingand the longitudinal lines of stitching 4 and 5 provide pockets A, B. Inorder to give the pockets capacity with a minimum width of the fabricbacking 1, the cloth-piece 2 is fulled or folded in any desired manner,as for example in the manner shown in the cross section, Figure 3.

In order to give strength to the holder, I preferably place the side andbottom edges of the cloth-piece 2 under a tape 6 and form the stitches4; and-5 through the tape. If desired, a further line of stitching 7 maybe formed at the bottom of the cloth-piece 2 and such stitches extendingthrough the backing member 1. a

section on the line 55,

At the bottom of the cloth-piece 2, extending through the same andthrough the backing, is the eyelet 72* of a hook member 1), two of saidmembers being preferably employed, one at each side margin of thedevice. At the top of the device I provide two complementaryinterlocking members, said members being eyelets c which are adapted to00- act with the bottom interlocking members of a preceding section.

In the modification illustrated in Figure 2, the construction issubstantially the same as in the preceding figure, with the exceptionthat the complementary interlocking members are of differentconstruction. At the top of the device they are socket members (Z and atthe bottom of the device they are headed members 6 adapted to enter thesockets d and be held therein by spring engagement, the ordinary socketfasteners being employed.

It will be understood that I do not limit myself to the exact forms ofcomplementary interlocking members employed to hold succeeding sectionstogether, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent being asfollows In a sectional shoe holder, a backing member of cloth, acloth-piece superposed thereon and connected approximately at its centreto the backing with a longitudinal line of stitching, a folded piece ofmaterial at the side margins and bottom of the holder and enclosing theedges of the said two cloth members and stitched thereto, and aplurality of interlocking members at the top and at the bottom of theholder, the said interlocking members at the bottom being adapted toco-act with the top locking members of a succeeding holder.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

GUSTAVE G. RONA.

